Ubuntu 7.10 and more
I upgraded my Ubuntu install this morning. It sounds like a feat but in fact it was so easy that literally anybody can do it. Closing applications, making sure you had an internet connection and then hitting ‘Upgrade’ in the package manager. Walk away for a little under an hour and that’s it. My input was required once – to tell the installer what to do with a customised file.
Upgrade complete and system restarted to find that my settings were just about all intact, including transferring settings between a major application upgrade and the smaller subtleties such as remembering my Firefox session. Overall I have to say that from the onset I am very impressed. Tweaking for the next few days is to be expected to get everything just how I like it, but the new Ubuntu is quite able to used with little problem straight out of the box. Whether you’re upgrading from 7.04 or creating a fresh install using a CD, Ubuntu has never been easier or more accessible to those interested in wishing to use linux for everyday computing.
Here’s my list of interesting links of the week. Enjoy!
- for those wishing to know more about my new OS here’s a non-geek friendly review of Ubuntu’s new release, 7.10 aka ‘Gutsy Gibbon’ (I love the release names)
- B.Stevens has created a cheap and easy way of creating lightrings for photography. Article here and Flickr photoset here. The amateur photographer in me would love to try this out.
- after decades of searching it seems that Carmen Sandiego has been found
- a most interesting article of the Neurology of ‘Alice’(Warning: link is a PDF)
- Chris Gilmour, an Italian artist who creates lifesize everyday objects out of cardboard
- a push button house which unfolds from a shipping container in 90 seconds, the Illy Cafe
- clever and funny clip about how a Triumph is not actually made…
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